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| THE SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET OF THE FORMER SECURITATE ARCHIVES (7.11.2007) |
| (2007-11-07) |
| Last updated: 2007-11-08 15:57 EET |
The Council has recently unearthed new more or less famous names of collaborators with the former Communist police in Romania. And the situation may even turn tragi-comical as linguistic discrepancies emerge between activities conducted by former collaborators and their current functions.
One such case is Doru Giugula, the deputy president of the National Arbitration and Moral Integrity Commission of the Social Democratic Party. The National Council for the Study of the Former Securitate Archives has passed the political police verdict, but Giugula keeps denying his collaboration with the Securitate. He admits that before the 1989 revolution, he was an counter-terrorism officer and adds that, under the law, this department no longer serves political police functions. Giugula's upgrading to the position of deputy president of the National Arbitration and Moral Integrity Commission is a serious violation of the party's statute, which stipulates that a morally and politically compromised person, one who used to serve the dictatorial and totalitarian regime, cannot be a member of the Social Democratic Party.
In response, Giugula pointed the finger at Cristian Radulescu, the leader of the Democratic Party deputies, whom he accuses of being a former counter-terrorism informer. The National Council for the Study of the Former Securitate Archives also passed a Securitate -collaboration verdict in the case of Andrei Alexandru, a spokesperson for the Senate speaker and a member of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation Board, dispatched by the Social Democratic Party:
“Let me repeat what I've already told everybody: this is press intoxication. I have nothing more to say. So, just add a period after the press intoxication and publish my statement.”
Andrei Alexandru was an advisor to former Romanian president Ion Iliescu between 1997 and 2000 and worked as a government expert for the Public Information Department between 1993 and 1997.
The rulings of the National Council for the Study of the Former Securitate Archives continue to be a burden on the shoulders of high clerics of the Romanian Orthodox Church, suspected of political policing during the Communist regime. According to the Council, Daniel, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church did not conduct political police, but several high clerics, of whom the latest case is that of his Holiness Pimen, archbishop of Suceava and Radauti, in the north-east, collaborated with the former Securitate secret police. Pimen has challenged the decision of the council and is scheduled for a hearing. Following information published by the media, according to which the Romanian Orthodox Church allegedly prohibited clerics from appearing in hearings before the Council, the Romanian Patriarchate has denied the existence of such a document.
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